TerHu

@TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real and True⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  my guess is bunny ears

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get your point, it can be really quite confusing to go from a compose file or just general instructions and mby a docker run command to the settings of truenas.

  you mention jails and that’s a core (no pun intended) issue of truenas. Truenas core is based on BSD which uses jails, whilst truenas scale is based on debian and uses docker. then recently it was all combined back into one, based on linux. hence no jails, just docker.
  additionally, truenas scale was using kubernetes instead of docker until a year ago i’d guess. so what im trying to say is that whatever info you may find online could be very irrelevant if it’s for truenas core or truenas scale back in the kubernetes days.

  besides the ui, if you have a compose yaml and just wanna use that for setup, you can go to apps -> discover apps -> three dots next to custom app -> install via yaml. now this is a pain to find, but it is there an it works pretty well. if you hate how that editor works, you can just paste a stub there that imports a specific other yaml file and then you put all the relevant config into that one. this extra file can then be edited via the cli, copied, moved, and version controlled, which can be very convenient.

  regarding storage, using ixVolumes is perfectly fine. i prefer to have a generic dataset called apps that then contains specific datasets for each app i’m running. those specific datasets i set to the apps preset.
  beyond that, i’ve got more diverse setups too. for example audiobookshelf. the config and metadata storage live in an audiobookshelf dataset in the apps dataset, as described before. this apps dataset is on a small ssd pool.
  the podcasts and audiobooks themselves are stored on a larger HDD mirror. basically i have a media dataset there that uses the share preset and then within that i got an audiobooks dataset that uses the apps preset. that way audiobookshelf can use the books and i can easily access the directory via smb. additionally i run a cloud sync task from the data protection tab once a week that syncs all my audiobooks to pcloud.

  now all of that isn’t necessarily easy, but i find it easier and more intuitive than doing it all via the cli on debian. then again i’ve never used debian with some specialised nas ui as others have recommended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  on omarchy on dhh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  imma give you another opinion and start out with the unhelpful statement of „what’s best for you is gonna depend on what you need“

  I‘ve never used debian as my personal NAS, but did manage a debian cluster at work. Compared to TrueNAS and later TrueNAS in a proxmox VM, debian is a lot more effort and in that sense „a hobby“.

  Things that TrueNAS just handles for me without much work:

  • install correct and functioning legacy nvidia drivers into select docker containers. i used to use an old card and it worked like a charm. comparing that to my experience of manually installing nvidia drivers on debian, both on work servers as well as on old systems i found on the street, Debian is a real chore sometimes and requires fiddling where TrueNAS is a lot simpler.
  • TrueNAS apps are awesome. the catalogue is limited and sometimes it’s annoying how Truenas abstracts important things away (like the config file of HomeAssistant), but they are very useful too. they tend to be well-configured, updating is pretty and easy as is installing. you get automatic snapshots and rollback for each and every update. I have done systems administration as a hobby, but i kinda want my NAS to just work and that reliably. in that sense, Truenas has been better than debian for me.
  • setting things up can be annoying on truenas, but most is set and forget. I set up smart tests and they just work now. same for snapshots. configuring pools and vdevs is pretty easy and intuitive. this also is the case for harddrive power profiles and spindown. i‘ve never had to do this on debian, so all i can say is that truenas makes it all very accessible.
  • monitoring is easy-ish… if you wanna monitor from within the truenas UI, you’ll be pretty happy. there’s lots to see. some things you for some reason don’t though, and exporting makes you see even less info in some places. it’s a bit weird…
  • re-silvering is very simple
  • data replication is very nice. i’m using pcloud which has a somewhat annoying linux client. it’s a flatpak that only launches if it has a wayland (or x) session it can attach to, to display a window. kinda stupid if it’s a headless system or if i’m remoting into my desktop. still, truenas has me covered even in that regard as they can pull or push data (optionally well encrypted) to a variety of providers, including pcloud.

  there probably is lots more, but i can’t think of anything else as of right now. I’ve used „plain“ Truenas scale for over a year and then switched to proxmox with a truenas VM when i built a new nas. the transition went pretty smoothly and i really like it. it does however add a layer of complexity you must be willing to deal with.

  all things considered, i would like some things about truenas to work differently, but i would never wanna trade it. proxmox is very cool, and i like using it with a truenas VM, but i wouldn’t wanna use it without truenas i think. also i absolutely love debian and use it in many places. if i was running services on one machine and storage on another, id have the services on debian(or proxmox mby) and the storage on truenas, but as long as its just one device, its truenas.

  additional thoughts:

  • i’ve heard good things about unraid but never tested it.
  • i’ve also seen many youtubers use CasaOS, but would recommend against it. i’ve not used it, but kept stumbling upon negative news in regards to it. it’s not as bad as omarchy/dhh, but it seems semi trustworthy.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨moved from truenas core to scale a month or two ago, and it's been a struggle. anyone else having issues running a truenas scale VM under proxmox? ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  btw, i tried to add two HDDs today and sata passthrough didn’t allow me to create a new pool despite them showing up in truenas. something about duplicate serial numbers and such. i then decided to pass through my cpus sata controller (proxmox and the truenas virtual boot drive run off nvme). rebooted proxmox and it worked. all drives detected and functional (after removing their individual passthrough because proxmox couldn’t find them as it didn’t have access to the sata controller anymore)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨moved from truenas core to scale a month or two ago, and it's been a struggle. anyone else having issues running a truenas scale VM under proxmox? ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used truenas scale on an old xeon with 32gb ram and then moved it over to proxmox on an i5-12600 with 64gb ddr5. truenas is installed to a virtual drive provided by proxmox, but all the other drives are sata passthrough and truenas handles the bare metal. the truenas vm has eight cores, 32gb ram and is running scale 25.10.0.1. so far i’ve got four sata ssds attached to it and am running 20+ apps without issues.

  i know this doesn’t help you much besides ensuring that it does actually work within proxmox 9.0.11

  good luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, please be mindful when using cloudflare. with them you’re possibly inviting in a much much bigger problem

  www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i think i absolutely loved manjaro for the first week. then it just went downhill. i still think that manjaro had cool things. it’s been my favourite grub because of it being somewhat riced and always picking up whatever dual boot i had on different drives. still i would recommend manjaro only to those people who need to practice fixing broken distros. its really good at that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To - Rik's Weblog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  in case you need more reasons agains cloudflare www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare they are really very harmful to both privacy and security of everyone on the internet i think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i‘ve first used jellyfin for movies and series for a while and then decided i also wanted to add music streaming to my nas, so i put it into jellyfin. there were a couple of things that bugged me though, and so i also installed navidrome. jellyfin and navidrome have access to the same directory with all the music i own, and i have both finamp as well as amperfy on my iphone, and i really quite prefer navidrome with amperfy. so i would say that if you already got jellyfin for movies/ series and you don’t need a lot for a music streaming platform, it’s perfectly fine. however, if you need some more music streaming specific stuff, like a nice workflow for creating playlists, you may prefer to add navidrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i like use amperfy on ios and i think it’s nice. for jellyfin i tried finamp, but i disliked music streaming via jellyfin in the end (mainly because making playlists was a hassle)

  amperfy takes me back to the old days when i used itunes and an ipod touch interface wise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s even the appeal of Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  fair, but considering that you mentioned autoruns and such, i guess you need more specialised things anyways, so maybe kionite just isn’t for you. i don’t use it either, but for my normie friends who need nothing but a browser, office, and mby steam (in that case mby bazzite), its awesome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s even the appeal of Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i have handed fedora kionite to a non-techie who was super happy with it, cuz it looks like windows, but most of the things you need, you can safely get via discover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨erm what the freak...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this ^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨erm what the freak...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  im using tidal because it supposedly pays more than spotify, deezer and apple music. (also because of privacy concerns with spotify) i’m not an audiophile and tidal works a little different to spotify, but it’s good.

  just know that there’s no hand-off or remote controlling of different sessions (i.e. spotify plays through your browser and you control it from your phone), unless devices are specifically built for that (like speakers with tidal support)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh My God, TAKE IT DOWN Kills Parody⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i find it very interesting how suddenly trump loves a law that focuses on consent. so, he does understand what that means?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: NASA’s Moon landing relied on Nazi scientists — and a secret U.S. program brought them here⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  YSK that after WWII all allied forces were trying to secure as many rockets, scientists, machinery and such as possible for themselves and themselves only. in the years following WWII basically the entirety of the US, russia, british and french rocket programs were based on german research and massively supported by the german researchers. (whether that was forcefully or by choice…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this^ thanks for explaining it so well :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i love the idea of hosting sites as part of a ring, but i don’t love the idea of having to add my full name and address in the about section, which i’d be legally required to do… i think that’s part of the issue for some people at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh i absolutely can blame them, because they made a choice. either you take my money and respect my privacy, or you sell all of my data and won’t get my money. however you can’t sell all of my data and take my money, nono, f u alphabet, that’s not how this works.